Architecture reviews, audits, transformations, second opinions. You speak with the operator solving the problem — never an account manager between you and the work.
See practiceRecurring engagement patterns become standalone products. PM Shift — Excel templates synced bidirectionally to Microsoft Teams Planner — is the first.
pm.shift.centerWe charge for the result, not the time. Refundable diagnostic on the first engagement. Walk-away clauses on both sides, in writing.
How we workWe are small. Senior. Considered. We do not pitch, we do not sell. We have a conversation — and if there is a problem worth taking, we take it.
Operator-led, never partner-led with junior delivery beneath. Each principal carries 15–25 years across engineering, product, and platform leadership. We are distributed across Europe; we travel for the right work.
No partnership pyramid. No internal sales. No utilisation targets. The principal you meet is the principal who delivers.
We arrive after the second failure, separate signal from noise, and either rescue the program or write the eulogy with evidence. Either outcome saves the next twelve months.
Independent technical second opinion, time-boxed, written, defensible. We arrive without a horse in the race.
Pre-deal technical diligence — what is real, what is overbuilt, what is fragile, what will cost in year one.
Triage first, structure second, sustainability third. We leave when status reports become trustworthy again. Usually one quarter too late, occasionally still in time.
Embedded transformation, multi-quarter, contracted on outcomes. Senior operators leading from inside the work.
Architecture and process audit, mapped to the standards that apply.
The audit that became a build.
PM Shift — now a Lab product — emerged from the patterns surfaced during a six-week architecture review.
Read lot 01 →The second opinion that stopped a rewrite.
Two weeks of diagnostic identified the three changes that would buy the next four years. The rewrite was cancelled.
Read lot 02 →The diligence that priced a deal correctly.
Three weeks of pre-deal review surfaced a load-bearing dependency and a security posture that would not pass post-deal audit.
Read lot 03 →Project management for teams whose project managers live in Excel. Snapshots every saved template into a database keyed to your account, mirrors it bidirectionally into Microsoft Teams Planner, and never loses your data when the file does.
Built from the engagement pattern we saw repeatedly: senior PMs, sophisticated templates, distributed teams, recurring nightmare of overwritten files. PM Shift solves the storage and sync so the PMs can keep doing what they are already good at.
Visit pm.shift.centerIn development
Excel · Postgres · Teams Planner · Graph API
Excel-native project teams
Commercial · forthcoming
Tell us what is not working. We will tell you whether we can help.
The first call is thirty minutes and free. If we are the right people, we will say so. If we are not, we will name two who are.